Regarding the ISO 18308 conformance requirement STR2.8 in issue 1.5 which states: "The EHRRA must support the inclusion of comments within the data stored - enabling the clinician to qualify structured information appropriately. Comments must be able to be linked to specific data attributes. (1.2.2.2) "
The reference model artefact statement on the second paragraph is: "openEHR does not include a blanket facility to include comments in all data value types as such because experience has shown that this kind of feature tends to be abused, and perverts capture of well-structured data (i.e. it allows systems to work around the intention of the model). " Note the reference is to attributes, rather than the data. It is good practice to attach a descriptive (or prescriptive) description to each attribute. I suggest the ISO requirement is not clear. If the requirement continued "enabling a clinical review body to annotate specific data attributes" then I see no reason why comments should not be allowed on all attributes, to show the intention of the model. Regards, Colin Sutton #################################################################################################################### IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The CTC is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the CTC. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient. ##################################################################################################################### -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3576 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20060709/f183c157/attachment.dat>
